Tissue face towel



April 5, 1938. A. D. MILLIKEN 2,113,431

TISSUE FACE TOWEL Filed Jan. 13, 1957 Patented Apr. 5, 1938 UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE Alma D. Milliken, Rye, N. Y. Application January13, 1937, Serial No. 120,411

3 Claims.

The present invention relates to a tissue face towel, designed primarilyfor use in removing creams of various kinds and like preparations,commonly employed for improving'the skin.

5 Smooth surface tissue or tissue with a raised or depressed surface,now available in the market, is not favored for face towel use by beautyspecialists or the average individual, as it is found that the action isnot to take up and remove the cream from the face but to force it intothe skin and as this is highly, objectionable for many obvious reasons,the tissue face towel has not been a commercial success.

Effective face cream removal, without irritat- I 1 5 ing or injuring theskin, requires a soft, rough surface tissue, which will not smooth outand become glazed with the cream and so present a slippery, impervioussurface, but will adsorb the cream taken up, by providing outlet for thesame through the body of the tissue to the opposite surface thereof,leaving the active surface effective for continued use.

I have found that tissue may be given the required soft, rough surfaceand outlet provided through the sheet, by giving the body of the tissuearaised surface pattern, preferably of studlike projections, in the formof small cones, pyramidsor the like, open and roughly edged at the topto give a brush-like effect. The openings thus provided afford readypassage for the cream to the opposite side of the sheet and the manysmall strands edging the openings, extend and softly roughen the surfaceof the tissue and thus increase the cream take-up action whenthe tissueis applied to the face.

Different forms oftissue face toweling suitable for carrying myinventioninto effect, are illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing but I do notwish to be understood as intending to limit myself to the same, asvarious changes may -be made therein without departing from the spiritand scope of the invention, as outlined in the appended claims.

In the drawing- Fig. 3 is a sectional view, similar to Fig. 2 .11

55 lustrating a modification.

Fig. 1 is a plan view. of a portion of one form Referring now to thedrawing, the form of the towel shown in Figs. 1 and 2, consists of abody I, of soft tissue, having a'through-cut pattern formed therein ofapertures 2. As indicated in Fig. 1 by the substantially circularoutline of the ap- 5 ertur'e, and in Fig. 4 by the actual lengths of theupturned edges of the aperture 2, material is removed from the body I informing the apertures 2. The resulting projections may be considered asfrusto-conical in shape with the tops cut off 10 in a plane parallel tothe plane of the body I, or as apertured recesses. from the other sideof the body I. The apertures are roughly broken through the sheet toprovide ragged edges 3, around each of the openings. Inuse of the towel,15

' these ragged edges 3 will have a brush-like effect and aid materiallyin the removal of the cream from the face, while the openings 2, givepassage to the cream through the body of the towel to the opposite sidethereof, thereby avoiding an accumulation of cream on the active surfaceof the towel, which would tend to form a slippery glaze and cause anobjectionable rubbing in rather than a removing action. As use of thetowel involves pressure on the skin, the upturned edges 25 of theapertures 2 are likely to be somewhat compressed back into the plane ofthe body I, but as the apertures 2 result from the removal of materialfrom the body I, openings are maintained therethrough and the cleansingaction of 30 the towel in accordance with my invention is not impaired.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3, the tissue towel is designated Iand provided on both sides with a raised surface patternof stud-likepro- 35 jections 4 so that either surface of the towel may be used asthe active side for wiping cream from the skin. The projections 4 areconstructed similarly to the projections 2 in the above-described formof my invention but alternate in direction, adjacent projectionsextending from opposite surfaces of the towel in order to provide auniform raised pattern on both sides of the towel so that either sidethereof may be applied to the skin without the need of taking notice asto which may be the active surface-the surface with the raisedpattern-thusfacilitating its use and increasing the convenience thereof.

As the operation and many important advantages of the invention will beapparent from the foregoing, it will not be necessary to furtherdescribe the same.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. A device for removing cosmetic cream from the skin comprising atissue paper towel having a multiplicity of apertures therein resultingfrom ripheral edges of said apertures extending in the the removal ofportions of said towel, said apersame direction and comprising thewiping eletures being adapted to pass cream from the acments of theactive surface. tive to the inactive surface of the towel, and the 3. Adevice for removing cosmetic cream from 5 peripheral edges of saidapertures being roughthe skin as described in claim 1 and constructed 5ened and raised from. the plane of the active to be reversiblyapplicable to the skin, the raised surface of said towel to provide a.brush-like efperipheral edges of adjacent apertures in said feet and aidin the removal of the cream through towel extending in oppositedirections -from the the said apertures. plane of the towel, theprojections extending in I 10 2. A device for removing cosmetic creamfrom either direction comprising the wiping elements 10 the skin asdescribed in claim 1 and constructed of an active surface. to have butone active surface, all raised pe- ALMA D. MILLIKEN.

